Tagged With "Days rest"
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Team Arm Development Problem
OK, coaches, I need help with developing the arms of our HS program. The last few years, we’ve used the basics from the Jaeger long toss program. Some of the boys progressed nicely while the progress of others was quite disappointing. We do have...
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A Smile and A Tear
One Night Changes a Life, and Calif. Town By TIM DAHLBERG, AP Sports Writer Fri Jun 10, 3:40 PMCLOVIS, Calif. - The chant began late in the fourth quarter in the basketball gym at Clovis East High. The students started it first, clapping their hands...
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Should we monitor catcher workloads, pitch counts, too?
Does any baseball authority, league recommend monitoring catcher's workload and pitch count? I DO NOW. My son pitches and catches, and even with careful monitoring, he sometimes has a sore arm after catching vs. pitching. I try to maintain a policy of...
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what to do about pitch counts for players who pitch and catch? Caution
Does any baseball authority, league recommend monitoring catcher's workload and pitch count? I DO NOW. My son pitches and catches, and even with careful monitoring, he sometimes has a sore arm after catching vs. pitching. I try to maintain a policy of...
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Chase Reid
Independence K: Chase Reid strikes out 19 in win over Torrington NEWPORT, R.I. – Newport starter Chase Reid dominated in his first start of the season, striking out 19 batters in a 6-1 victory over Torrington in New England Collegiate Baseball...
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Son headed to college for first year? What's he doing this summer?
"Playing baseball" is the obvious answer. Unfortunately, there's no summer league team for my son (RHP) to play on over here in Seoul. He's been on a summer team in the States the past two summers but this year we have to wait to go back since our...
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Youth Pitching Age
What is the best age to start developing a pitcher?I'm trying to seek a little wisdom from those out there that have "been there done that" with their kids throughout their baseball careers. Just wondering what coaches and pitchers parents that have...
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injury-what to do?
My son is 09 LHP. He has received considerable interest based on around 30 phone calls after 7/1 from D1 schools. Unfortunately, he has elbow tendinitis and needs to shut down for the rest of the summer-he tried to battle through but he needs a good...
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Goodbye My good friends
As I watched my last MTSU home game yesterday and did my usual drop by the HSBBweb monday morning pit stop, I saw Bob was shutting down the site.I wanted to thank everyone for the wonderful friendships made over the last 7 years. Seems alot of things...
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Top of the Shoulder Pain
My son is in his Freshman year of college and is experiencing the frustration of an injury. He has been pretty lucky as a pitcher in that the only problem he has ever had is a pinched ulnar nerve which usually recovered with a little PT and rest. For...
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Pitchers - Shut it down for Holidays or work your ace off?
Shut it down and rest or work straight through to build arm strength? Little worried about possible fatigue.Any thoughts are appreciated!
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Flash! Limom84's son can hit!!!!!!!!!!
All right, folks, I have enjoyed playing with you all. I am NOT a man, but my husband has helped me with some of this. He played D1 baseball, so he knows a little bit more about this than most. Okay, I agree. Baseball is about hitting. Unfortunately,...
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Hardin Valley Academy
Hardin Valley AcademyWINCHESTER, Va. (June 8, 2008)- Shenandoah University Head Baseball Coach Kevin Anderson announced Monday that assistant coach Kirk Renegar has resigned.Renegar has been with the program for the past four years, including the past...
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Interesting Recruiting Dilemma
I would appreciate any input on our particular situation, as follows:Our son is a highly ranked 2009 player at a private D1 high school who played against and in the same league as a 2008 first round draft pick last season. He is being heavily...
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Runner Interference
This just happened yesterday..............Runners on First and Second, 1 out. Batter hits ball off pitchers leg, dribbles toward short, never leaving the grass. Runner is on straight line to third; SS begins moving forward to pick up carom, which is...
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Overpitching
My son pitched 110 pitches last Saturday. He went 6 full inning. He was told to ice his arm and rest it. Monday he went in to pitch 4 innings in a 10 inning game. Threw about 70 pitches. Thursday once again he went in and threw 4 innings in an 8...
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VA Pilot Newspaper Article
To the Va PilotI have thought about this and decided to keep it simple.I just read an article from last weekends VA Pilot (Beacon Section) promoting a Kempsville High School Player. I think it was unfair to put down the other 19 kids on the Kempsville...
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Abusive Summer Travel Teams...
You hear it all the time from high school coaches around my neck of the woods...."I don't want you to play because they abuse pitchers arms!"One of them this week threw his number one pitcher a complete game Tuesday in the state playoff then again...
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How do you figure "days of rest?"
Pitcher throws on Monday and again on Wednesday. Is that considered one day of rest or two? (I figure I'm the only one on here not sure about that basic question)
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Forearms Sore??
Id've just started doing wrist curls, i see it working, but know my forearms are sore i stopped doing them today and also yesterday. hopefully some rest can help.Any advice is good. thanks
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Fundraising Thread - 10K Goal
I've finally figured out how to start a PBS-style fundraising thread here at the hsbbweb where we can electronically track statistics to achieve our goal. This thread will contain four polling tabs - a $100.00 tab, a $50.00 tab, a $25.00 tab, and a...
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What's going on?
Just saw on Sportscenter where Manny Para and Prince Fielder got into a one sided shoving match in the dugout tonight during the Reds game.There have been more "public" confrontations this year during games (in my opinion) than in past years. I know...
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Happy Mother's Day
To all the moms who visit the HSBBW, I wish you all a very Happy Mother's Day. Rest, relax and enjoy! TPM is going on a 7 day cruise, TPM's hubby going on business and TPM is going along for much needed R & R! Will miss u all!
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Catcher Faking Throw
Two interesting plays this week highlighted the need to be sure our catchers know the correct way to fake a throw to 2nd with men on 1st & 3rd. Game #1: had a catcher try to fake the throw with the ball actually in his throwing hand. He started the throw to 2nd looking realistic but as his throwing arm moved through the slot he began to let up in an effort to not accidentally loose his grip on the ball. Two things happened, one he didn’t fool anyone with the “fake”, and...
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Congrats to the Cadets
Army won the Patriot League title this weekend and once again is headed to the NCAA TournamentGood luck the rest of the way
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walk-on versus preferred walk-on?
What's the difference between the two? My son just finished his soph. year as a JUCO pitcher.He had a great year, but didn't start getting interest until late in the season. A top 20 D1 is interested, but doesn't have any money left. He was told that...
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Son will be going to a brand new HS
I am in a total quandry about the future scholarship opportunities of my son, I could realy use the advise of some BTDT parents! Please bear with me as I give you some background.Our soon to be 8th grader will be going to an established HS for his...
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Need a nickname for the VBL's Strasburg team
Strasburg will be playing Valley League Baseball for the summer of 2011.Team colors will be Purple and White.Team Nickname is TBA ... any suggestions?I've heard the following:- The Purple Storm- The Rams (same as HS team)- ?????Please reply back with...
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Competing in college
On our local baseball message board there is a link to the new 2010 roster at DII power Sonoma State.They started with 150 players trying out.Of that 150 players, somewhere between 15 and 19 were transfers from DI programs.Of that group of DI...
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Surviving the Loss of an Athlete
This past 2009 baseball season we lost one of our senior players, our catcher, in a horrible one-car accident. He was my son's best friend, but he had MANY close friends. We had three games left in the season, and we had to play them. The grief was...
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Tounament Pitching Rotation Questions
For those of you who coach or participate in youth baseball tounaments,How do you handle your pitching rotation? What I'm asking is how do you spread the work load of 3-5 games over a three day weekend amongst your pitchers(how many do you use?).Do...
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Help with coaching dilemma please...
Hello to all you wonderful posters. I have been reading this forum religiously since September. Long story...hope someone is willing to read it all.Freshman year son (LHP) had very tough year for many reasons and pitched really badly. We thought his...
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Army vs Florida
This deserves its own thread.I am guessing this is one of the biggest games in CPLZ's son's young life. I'll be rooting for him and the rest of the Black Knight's as Daddy Bo's son will also be in the starting line-up. I don't think we have any UF...
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you never know
When I attend college baseball games I try to engage parents in conversation to learn about their son's journey. A couple of years ago at a Boston College game I chatted with the mother of a BC player. The family is from Louisiana. The kid looked at...
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Northern Region results
It seems the NR starts playing its full schedule later than the rest of the state. Anyone have any results to post?
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Dominion District Results
I caught most of the James River 5-1 victory over Midlothian yesterday.I guess by now everyone knows about soph. LHP Nate Kirby at James River. Yesterday they started freshman RHP Jack Roberts, younger brother of Will Roberts (now at UVA), and he shut...
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Calling Pitches
If you had a 2010 that had his first start this year a few days ago and he sat 90-91 and touched 93 in the first inning. How many curveballs would you have him throw the rest of the game. The pitching coach for our team had him throw close to a 50/50...
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Mound Visits
Can you guys give me the rule reference / number on how many visits you get per game under NFHS rule set?Tonight I went out to talk to the pitcher in the 5th inning to find out how much my pitcher had left. He lasted another hitter as we got another...
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Beach District Scores 4/2
Ocean Lakes-14 Kellam-4 5 InningsAlex Lambert(OL) and Patrick Harrington(K) each hit 2 Home Runs. Alex hit two 3 Run blasts, while Patrick had a 2 run and a solo blast. All of OL's runs but one were scored via long ball. Tyler Clements, Killian Strenn...
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Games Tues March 30 -- still on?
As you learn of any games that are casualties of wet grounds, please share that info with the rest of us so we don't drive out to a game to find nothing going on!I have heard that Woodberry Forest at Collegiate was rescheduled as part of a DH at WF on...
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Players Getting Arrested
A friend of mine is the head BB coach at another school. A few of the kids at his school got arrested for burning down an abandoned building. They played football, not baseball. My question is if these were kids on your team, how would you handle it?...
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Just passing it on.
I received this today from a friend:Grandpa, some ninety years, sat feebly on the patio bench. He didn't move, just sat with his head down staring at his hands.When I sat down beside him he didn't acknowledge my presence and the longer I sat I...
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So Cal High School
I will go with what I know so far. Others can chime in on City Section teams. I have not seen/heard much regarding the SF Valley teams.MaramonteI have not seen any team from Winter or fall ball but based on what I know from returnees. I am going...
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Hunker down
To all those posters who are in the line of this nasty Northern blizzard....be SAFE. To the rest of you, when its all over try to find us.
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Contract Structures
Hello everyone, glad I joined this great community.Question?My son is about to announce his verbal commitment with a University. He also has the potential to be drafted in 2010. My biggest question is how are contracts designed for HS players.Signing...
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Which side of mound to stand at?
I am a freshmen in college. When I was in little league I use to throw from the left side of the mound (I am left handed). I seemed to be ok from there but in HS moved over to the right side of the mound and seem to be pretty successful from there. I...
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Best players in MLB this Decade
These guys should at least get their due since they did "step up" to the plate better than the rest over the last 10 yearsMLB: Best of the Decade (Batting) With the decade soon coming to an end, More Hardball decided to see which MLB batters won the...
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The Best Affair
The Best Affair Jake was dying. His wife sat at the bedside. He looked up and said weakly: 'I have something I must confess.' 'There's no need to, 'his wife replied. 'No,' he insisted, 'I want to die in peace. I slept with your sister, your...